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- Wendy Strgar
- April 13, 2010
- 11:01 am
- 42 comments
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break. ~William Shakespeare
Shakespeare himself would be overcome by the enormity of the tragedy that Poland faces today. Within hours, the brightest minds and most committed public servants, along with the ranks of courageous Polish past leaders, perished in a burst of flame over the very forest where they came to mourn the tragic historic loss of 20,000 soldiers to Russian secret forces. If ever a land was cursed and haunted by the unforgivable deaths and haunting tragedy, it is this one.
People lined the streets, a total psychic earthquake; all the leaders of thought and behavior of their culture lost to them in an instant. You couldn’t even grasp the enormity of that in fiction–how could this level of loss for so many be real? And if it is real, and anything I said yesterday about the fact that we are all one, then the loss of this brilliance is shared by the world. When this much light is irretrievably lost, all at once, it reverberates in all of us.
The list of the losses is so great and cuts so deeply into the fabric of both the history and the present of a nation that it seems like it must be fiction. Not only every single current military leader, but the survivors of those who perished years ago now joined their dead. All those that had forged new levels of peace and cooperation, including their current president, were on board.
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Wendy Strgar
Wendy Strgar, founder and CEO of Good Clean Love, is a loveologist who writes and lectures on Making Love Sustainable, a green philosophy of relationships which teaches the importance of valuing the renewable resources of love, intimacy and family. In her new book, Love that Works: A Guide to Enduring Intimacy, she tackles the challenging issues of sustaining relationships and healthy intimacy with an authentic and disarming style and simple yet innovative advice. It has been called "the essential guide for relationships." The book is available on ebook. Wendy has been married for 27 years to her husband, a psychiatrist, and lives with their four children ages 13- 22 in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
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Very beautifully written. Here is to always letting the magic of peace, love and faith wash over you.
Metta Bhavna is a Pali word meaning meditation of loving kindness. The Buddha taught this meditation in Metta Sutta to 500 monks to cure them of their ailments and to protect them from evil spirits.
Metta Bhavna is also practised to purify our mind of defilements like anger, jealousy, hatred and self-pity. We cannot stop the suffering of the world. We can only stop it in our mind, because we know our minds and we generate anger, hatred, and jealousy in our own mind. The only way we can still our minds is by practising Metta Bhavna.
Buddha said that "Hatred cannot coexist with loving-kindness, and dissipates if supplanted with thoughts based on loving-kindness.” Throughout the world, beings suffer. Not only humans but plants, insects, animals, even the earth herself.
Stated simply, Metta is the wish that all beings (regardless of social, religious, racial, political, and economic status) have welfare and happiness. Developing Metta through loving-kindness meditation can make it easier to replace feelings of bitterness, resentment, and animosity with more positive feelings of benevolence, sympathy, and love. Sounds good, right? And it is.
Mettā - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett%C4%81
The Chant of Metta
http://www.buddhanet.net/chant-metta.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D644BWAUOXo
Imee Ooi - The Chant Of Metta - English subtitled version
May I be free from suffering.
May I be happy.
May I experience ease and contentment.
May I be filled with loving kindness.
May you be free from suffering.
May you be happy and well.
May you be peaceful and at ease
May you be filled with loving kindness
May you love and be loved.
May you find the healing that you seek.
May you find peace.
May all human beings be free from suffering.
May all human beings be filled with loving kindness.
May all beings everywhere be free of suffering.
May all beings be happy.
May all love and be loved.
May all find the healing that they seek.
May all beings everywhere find perfect peace.
Metta - Unconditional Ultimate Loving Kindness
Metta Bhavna ( Loving Kindness Meditation)
My heart goes out to their loved ones who stay behind!
I also hope that this tragic loss will not effect Poland's political climate in a bad way!
Thank you very much for this post, as well as for all the comments. I am Polish; more than a week passed. I am still shocked.
My heart goes out to all of those whose family and friends passed in this horrible accident. My heart also goes out to the country of Poland, and all of its souls. A pain this huge, this far reaching and this unbearable, needs to be shared by us all-I send blessings of comfort, peace and healing to every one in Poland, and pray for all to find answers and meaning in this tragedy.
My heart goes out to the people who had passed on and to their families. Praying for our planet~
Thank you very much for the article!
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